And Sha'ul said, 'Blessed are you of YHWH, for you have sympathy with me.

'Please go, prepare yet further and find out and see the place where his hide-out is, who has seen him there. For I am told that he is very cunning.

'So look, and learn all about the hiding places where he hides. And you shall come back to me with certainty, then I shall go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search for him throughout all the clans of Yehudah.'

And they rose up and went to Ziph before Sha'ul, while Dawid and his men were in the Wilderness of Ma'on, in the desert plain on the south of the wasteland.

And Sha'ul and his men went to seek him, and they informed Dawid, so he went down to the rock, and remained in the Wilderness of Ma'on. And when Sha'ul heard this, he pursued Dawid in the Wilderness of Ma'on.

And Sha'ul went on one side of the mountain, and Dawid and his men on the other side of the mountain. And Dawid was hurrying to get away from Sha'ul, for Sha'ul and his men were surrounding Dawid and his men to take them.